Thursday, 9 November 2017

5 Tips to Help You Pass Your Six Sigma Green Belt Exam

The Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification introduces managers to process improvement, waste minimisation and value maximisation. This certification is aimed at professionals with an interest or business-need for process improvement techniques.
If this sounds like you, and you’d like to implement Lean Six Sigma’s methodologies in your workplace, you’ll benefit from the Green Belt certification.

Achieve it and you’ll learn how to reduce errors, control costs, streamline processes and improve the success rates of your team’s projects.

We’ve created a list of tips to help you study for the Lean Six Sigma Green Belt exam. These are Firebrand's 5 tips to help you pass your Six Sigma Green Belt exam:

Test Yourself on Practice Questions

Make Use of Lean Six Sigma Study Guide

Take a Green Belt Certification Course

Immerse Yourself in The Methodology

Join a Six Sigma Green Belt Forum

Follow these study tips and you should have the best possible chance at passing your Lean Six Sigma Green Belt exam.

Take a look at Six Sigma Study Guide for a large collection of practice tests, exams and questions. Alternatively, Six Sigma Training Free also hosts a great selection of Six Sigma resources, including Green Belt practice exams.

2. Make Use of Lean Six Sigma Study Guide

There's a wide range of study guides available online specifically designed to help you study for the Green Belt exam.

Six Sigma Green Belt Study Guide, published by Trivium Test Prep is one of the most popular study guides available for students aiming to take on the Green Belt exam.

With an emphasis on easy-to-understand and streamlined content, the Six Sigma Green Belt Study Guide includes a comprehensive review of all exam concepts, practice questions.

If you’re looking for some additional reading, or for a practical approach to implementing Lean Six Sigma methodologies in your team or business, consider purchasing the Lean Six Sigma Minitab by Quentin Brook.

Now in the fifth edition with over 150,000 copies old, this Lean Six Sigma guide is firmly established as the practical guide for business improvement professionals worldwide. Inside, you’ll get 140 Lean Six Sigma tools and techniques and interactive Lean examples.

Updated for 2017, this book is designed to give practical advice to those using Lean Six Sigma within their businesses. It’s designed to help managers implement process improvement and includes easy to navigate DMAIC tabs, interactive examples and logical route maps through the Six Sigma DMAIC flow.

For a comprehensive list of Six Sigma certification books, take a look at our top 10 best books to help you pass your Six Sigma certification.

3. Take a Green Belt Certification Course

Lean Six Sigma Green Belt courses are designed to give you as much knowledge and skills as possible, enabling you to pass the exam and to make use of the methodology in a real business environment.

The benefits you receive depend on the type of course you choose to sit. On a classroom-based course, you’ll benefit from an instructor – giving you the opportunity to pose your own business-specific questions.

On Firebrand’s accelerated and combined Green and Black belt course, you’ll get 12-hours of training each day in a distraction-free environment and get certified at twice the speed.

4. Immerse Yourself in The Methodology

When taking a certification exam, it’s crucial that you learn through your experiences with a trial version of the product or technology. With the Lean Six Sigma methodology, that’s a little trickier. Your best alternative is to immerse yourself as much as you can in Lean Six Sigma outside of directly studying for your exam.

To do this, you should take advantage of the myriad of websites, blogs and other content available online. For example, Six Sigma Ninja is an excellent website created by a Green Belt alumni that breaks down Green Belt in a straightforward and easily digestible fashion.

There’s a wealth of information for newbies and content explaining many of Lean Six Sigma’s tools and terminologies.

There are also writers blogging about the latest trends and developments in Lean Six Sigma, and specifically the Green Belt’s exam content.

Reading and staying current with these can give you a wider understanding of the methodology; how it’s evolving and how your knowledge and skills can be utilised in the real world business environment. For a comprehensive list of Six Sigma blogs, check out this list of 20 Lean Six Sigma blogs here.

5. Join a Six Sigma Green Belt Forum

Because of the broad and widely-applicable nature of project management, there is a wide range of forums and discussions you can find online – all with varying levels of quality.

One of the best forms, with a large number of contributors and topics, is hosted by iSixSigma. You’ll get a comprehensive range of Lean Six Sigma topics, divided into topic areas for easy navigation.

As with all online forums though, be aware that not everyone is an expert and not all contributions will be totally applicable (or relevant!).

Learning as much as you can when preparing for the exam, will put you in a great position to bring your knowledge into your business to improve processes and reduce errors.